Closing date: 11th November 2024
Salary: Starting from £35,000 per annum
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly organised Editor to join the Nosy Crow fiction editorial team.
Nosy Crow is a multi-award winning, independent children's publishing company with operations in both the UK and the USA. We make child-focused, parent-friendly children's books for ages 0-12. The Fiction team work on a variety of books for readers ages 5-12, working closely with multi-award-winning and bestselling authors and illustrators, as well as creating story concepts in-house. Our focus is on creating and sustaining confident readers from the moment children can independently read for themselves and nurturing a love of stories.
Reporting to the Publishing Director, you'll be joining a close-knit, vibrant team with whom you'll work closely to create a wide range of fiction books in a fast-paced, creative environment. This role is ideal for a self-motivated team player with a demonstrable passion for children's fiction. The role of Editor includes managing a number of titles through the editorial process - both autonomously and with support of the senior team - from manuscript delivery and cover briefing through to publication. It requires working collaboratively with authors, illustrators and in-house colleagues in Design, Production, Rights, Sales, Marketing and Publicity.
The Editor will report to the Publishing Director for Fiction, while working closely with the Publishing Director at Large and the Editorial Assistant.
Key responsibilities
- Independently project-managing titles, seeing them through from manuscript delivery to printer-ready files
- Liaising with other departments in Nosy Crow, working especially closely with Design, Production and Audio to keep titles on schedule and providing material to other departments as needed
- Liaising closely with our American partners and authors to produce Americanised editions of our titles
- Acting as a key point of contact for authors, illustrators and their agents, providing them with excellent care throughout the editorial process
- Writing excellent copy for covers, AIs and catalogues
- Reading submissions, taking an active role in editorial meetings and creative brainstorms
- Taking responsibility for the Biblio upkeep on your own titles, ensuring the metadata is accurate and optimally commercial
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Demonstrated expertise in children's publishing, ideally as part of a fiction list
- Excellent hands-on editorial skills including copy-editing, proofreading and copy writing
- Excellent author care and communication skills
- Passion and enthusiasm for creating books that make readers for life, as well as strong knowledge of the children's fiction market
- Effortless organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines while maintaining the highest standards of quality, take initiative and prioritise your own workload in a busy and sometimes high-pressure environment
- A meticulous eye for detail and creative flair
- A proactive team player, able to galvanise cross-departmental support for your own titles while being a champion of the fiction list as a whole
Additional information
The role is a full-time position and is a hybrid role, working a minimum of three days per week in our office near to London Bridge. The successful candidates will have the right to live and work in the UK.
Please note this is not an entry-level role. It may suit a freelancer with considerable experience looking for a more permanent position. This will not be a commissioning role.
Benefits:
- Pension scheme
- Hybrid working
- 25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays
- Christmas closure
- Summer hours
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Income Protection
- Critical Illness cover
- Group Life Assurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/partner/adoption leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Eye care vouchers
- Up to 80% off RRP for Nosy Crow book purchases
- Emergency loans
To apply
If this sounds like you, please email your CV, accompanied by a cover letter of no more than 500 words, outlining why you think you would be the perfect candidate for this exciting opportunity to Rhianna Sandford at Nosy Crow, by clicking the 'Apply' button. We look forward to reading your application.
Please let us know if you are comfortable doing so, whether or not there are any reasonable adjustments that we should consider that would help during the recruitment process.
Nosy Crow is a Disability Confident, committed equal opportunities employer. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is an important factor in success and make recruiting decisions based on applicants' experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership. Applications are treated with due confidentiality.
Nosy Crow is a member of the Living Wage foundation.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.